Welcome to my first tournament.
Sure the Stanley cup playoffs won't start till April, but let's do it now and see what happens.
Here's how it works:
This is a 4 round, best of 7, single elimination tournament. There will 16 entrants (and 4 reserves) - pick an NHL hockey team as well as a map. You can pick any active NHL team you wish.
8 teams from the east and west conferences are available to be chosen (all teams listed below). Team selection is done on a first come first serve basis - For example, if you want Toronto (barf), but there are already 8 teams chosen from the eastern conference (or Toronto has already been chosen by someone else), it will not be available.
Once all of the teams\maps have been selected, seeds will be determined using random.org. The teams (8 from each conference) will be seeded 1-8. Seed 1 will be paired up with 8, 2 with 7, 3 with 6, 4 with 5.
Whoever the top seed in the bracket will be considered the "home" team and the lower seed will be the "away" team. This applies to all rounds. Games 1 and 2 will be played on the top seed's map, 3 and 4 on the lower seed's map, 5 on the top seed's map, 6 on the bottom seed's map and game 7 on the top seed's map. Should the same seed make it to the finals, the player with the least number of losses will be top seed. Should both records be the same, I will use random.org to determine who is top seed.
For Round 1, there will be 16 players, Round 2 will consist of 8, Round 3 will have 4 and the final round will have the last two standing to fight for the Stanley Cup!!!!
Game settings are as follows (thanks butters for mentioning that):
Game Type: Standard
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Escalating
Reinforcements and Fog of War settings are up to the Home team
No round limit
May the best player win and have fun!
Teams are seeded as follows:
Eastern Conference
1 Grandilof - Philadelphia Flyers
2 Offinthecorner - Pittsburgh Penguins
3 cascades - Montreal Canadiens
4 TheTrueNorth - Toronto Maple Leafs
5 sandman175 - Tampa Bay Lightning
6 fookeh - New Jersey Devils
7 Ghost_Rider - Boston Bruins
8 Baby-Bjorn - Washington Capitals
Western Conference
1 ESQuire - Colorado Avalanche
2 Jippd - Detroit Red Wings
3 blonderic - San Jose Sharks
4 HighlanderAttack - Calgary Flames
5 evil semp - Chicago Blackhawks
6 mr. CD - Anaheim Ducks
7 plurple - Nashville Predators
8 dorsettrob - Minnesota Wild
Round 1: Conference Quarter Finals
Eastern Conference Match ups:
Grandilof - Philadelphia Flyers (1) vs. Baby-Bjorn - Washington Capitals (8) - Flyers win 4-2
Offinthecorner - Pittsburgh Penguins (2) vs. Ghost_Rider - Boston Bruins (7) - Penguins win 4-0
cascades - Montreal Canadiens (3) vs. fookeh - New Jersey Devils (6) - Devils win 4-2
TheTrueNorth - Toronto Maple Leafs (4) vs. sandman175 - Tampa Bay Lightning (5) - Lightning win 4-2
Western Conference Match ups:
ESQuire - Colorado Avalanche (1) vs. dorsettrob - Minnesota Wild (8) - Wild win 4-2
Jippd - Detroit Red Wings (2) vs. plurple - Nashville Predators (7) - Red Wings win 4-0
blonderic - San Jose Sharks (3) vs. mr. CD - Anaheim Ducks (6) - Ducks win 4-2
HighlanderAttack - Calgary Flames (4) vs. evil semp - Chicago Blackhawks (5) - Flames win 4-1
Round 2: Conference Semi Finals
Eastern Conference Match ups:
Grandilof - Philadelphia Flyers (1) vs. fookeh - New Jersey Devils (6) - Flyers win 4-2
Offinthecorner - Pittsburgh Penguins (2) vs. sandman175 - Tampa Bay Lightning (5) - Lightning win 4-3
Western Conference Match ups:
Jippd - Detroit Red Wings (2) vs. dorsettrob - Minnesota Wild (8) - Wings win 4-2
HighlanderAttack - Calgary Flames (4) vs. mr. CD - Anaheim Ducks (6) - Flames win 4-2
Round 3: Conference Finals
Eastern Conference Finals:
Grandilof - Philadelphia Flyers (1) vs. sandman175 - Tampa Bay Lightning (5) - Flyers win 4-3
Western Conference Finals:
Jippd - Detroit Red Wings (2) vs. HighlanderAttack - Calgary Flames (4) - Red Wings win 4-1
Round 4: Stanley Cup Finals
Grandilof - Philadelphia Flyers (1) vs. Jippd - Detroit Red Wings (2) - Red Wings win 4-1
Jippd \ Detroit win the cup!
